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We survived having to serve up pizza at the corp. office. It wasn't too bad, but dang there's a lot more people there than you'd think. A little over 400 people came and enjoyed some good Chicago Pizza from Lou Malnati's.
How do you serve pizza to 400+ people all at once? I know the answer to that now. We had 210 pizzas frozen and shipped overnight from Chicago. We hired a caterer with big ovens to come setup in the parking lot and start cooking about 10. Kept them warm in big warming ovens, and started serving at about 11:30.
We got our digs back in though, as we had a little powerpoint slide show running on a projector. The last slide of the loop was a picture of the seahawks mascot saying "Enjoy your pizza!". So we got the last laugh there.
Training
Training keeps going well. Not going to get around to posting all my workouts from the last update, but it's basically more of the same. Lots of swimming, lots of biking, and lots of running. Though not so much biking yet this time of year. I'm still heavily into a run focus. I've added a yoga class ( pilates ) once a week, and started swimming with a Masters group on Saturday mornings. Really liking both, and the Masters group should give me the extra motivation I need to push myself harder on swimming.
I'm also really liking the rather mild winter so far. It's made running outside ( apart from one really brutal cold snap ) pretty enjoyable. If only we could get some sun to shine, but at least it's not raining. I'll take gray and cloudy over gray and rainy anyday.
Racing soon!
I've got my first "real" race coming up the end of February. I'm running the 1/2 marathon at the Gasparilla invitational down in Tampa. I know a bunch of people doing the race, and I can definitely use a break from the Chicago weather and lack of sunlight. I'm going to be shooting for a PR at the distance ( not too hard since my most recent 1/2 marathon's have been the tail end of 1/2 IM race! ).
We survived having to serve up pizza at the corp. office. It wasn't too bad, but dang there's a lot more people there than you'd think. A little over 400 people came and enjoyed some good Chicago Pizza from Lou Malnati's.
How do you serve pizza to 400+ people all at once? I know the answer to that now. We had 210 pizzas frozen and shipped overnight from Chicago. We hired a caterer with big ovens to come setup in the parking lot and start cooking about 10. Kept them warm in big warming ovens, and started serving at about 11:30.
We got our digs back in though, as we had a little powerpoint slide show running on a projector. The last slide of the loop was a picture of the seahawks mascot saying "Enjoy your pizza!". So we got the last laugh there.
Training
Training keeps going well. Not going to get around to posting all my workouts from the last update, but it's basically more of the same. Lots of swimming, lots of biking, and lots of running. Though not so much biking yet this time of year. I'm still heavily into a run focus. I've added a yoga class ( pilates ) once a week, and started swimming with a Masters group on Saturday mornings. Really liking both, and the Masters group should give me the extra motivation I need to push myself harder on swimming.
I'm also really liking the rather mild winter so far. It's made running outside ( apart from one really brutal cold snap ) pretty enjoyable. If only we could get some sun to shine, but at least it's not raining. I'll take gray and cloudy over gray and rainy anyday.
Racing soon!
I've got my first "real" race coming up the end of February. I'm running the 1/2 marathon at the Gasparilla invitational down in Tampa. I know a bunch of people doing the race, and I can definitely use a break from the Chicago weather and lack of sunlight. I'm going to be shooting for a PR at the distance ( not too hard since my most recent 1/2 marathon's have been the tail end of 1/2 IM race! ).
posted by Chris Parker at
12:35 PM
2 Comments:
You've got to love food establishments that are such icons, such fixtures, that they'll ship the food whereever, largely to satisfy regulars who've moved away. You can even order live Maine lobster. I'd like to try some of that pizza sometime, Parker.
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Sanford Owings, at 6:28 PM
Glad to hear you are still alive! And, can you send some of that pizza to Seattle?
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Ultragrrl, at 12:12 PM
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